Enviva, the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets, today released its latest Track & Trace sourcing data, which marks two years of publicly available reporting of the company’s sourcing material.
Enviva’s established Track & Trace data program validates that the company’s sourcing material comes from sustainable and well managed working forests that are thriving and growing across the Southeastern United States.
“We are committed to advancing sustainable forestry practices and to ensuring transparent and responsible management of our supply chain,” stated Jennifer Jenkins, Enviva Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer. “We are delighted that once again, our Track & Trace data serve as a testament to this commitment and that the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data validate that forest area and inventory continues to increase in the areas where we operate,” she added.
Track & Trace’s proven technology enables the company to provide unmatched transparency about the origin of every truckload of wood the company procures from the forest or sawmill, along with detailed insights into the wood’s unique characteristics.
The latest dataset shows that Enviva sourced wood from 1,157 working forest harvests in 76 counties and in 5 Southeastern states over the six-month period ending in December 2017. The forests in the Southeastern United States continue to grow and thrive, with the total amount of forest area in Enviva’s primary supply area increasing by more than 300,000 acres and forest inventory increasing by more than 150 million tons since 2011.
Other findings from the latest Track and Track data include:
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About Enviva Holdings, LP
Enviva Holdings, LP is the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets, a renewable and sustainable energy source used to generate electricity and heat. Through its subsidiaries, Enviva Holdings, LP owns and operates wood pellet processing plants and deep-water export terminals in the Southeastern United States. We export our pellets primarily to power plants in the United Kingdom and Europe that previously were fueled by coal, enabling them to reduce their lifetime carbon footprint by about 80 percent. We make our pellets using sustainable practices that protect Southern forests and employ about 680 people and support many other businesses in the rural South, where jobs and economic opportunity are sometimes scarce. Enviva Holdings, LP conducts its activities primarily through two entities: Enviva Partners, LP, a publicly-traded master limited partnership (NYSE: EVA), and Enviva Development Holdings, LLC, a wholly owned private company. To learn more about Enviva Holdings, LP, please visit our website at www.envivabiomass.com and follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/enviva) and Twitter (@EnvivaBiomass).
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